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A housefly goes through four stages of metamorphosis - egg , larva, pupa and adult - so the stage just before the actual fly (adult) is the pupa which often resembles a large grain of brown rice.

When the egg hatches it becomes a larva, a grub-like thing called a maggot that is usually mostly white and found on rotting meat or overripe vegetation. The maggot, after a period of time, finds a dark place and becomes a pupa, and then eventually becomes the adult fly that you find in your soup, in your beer, on your steak and in your face.

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